dsbatten on Nostr: The bitcoin community is incredible. I’m involved in so many collaborations right ...

The bitcoin community is incredible.

I’m involved in so many collaborations right now. Most of them with people I’ve never met in person, only thru nostr or X.



The people I’ve met and have ongoing collaborations with include
- my business partner at CH4Capital, a fund that invests in bitcoin mining on landfills
- a group of German scientists who I’m writing a bitcoin mining paper on
- a group of engineers and researchers who have formed the Digital Assets Research Institute (www.da-ri.org)
- 2 bitcoin mining companies (one as an advisor, one producing research and content)
- 4 founders of bitcoin companies & bitcoin hedge funds that I’m coaching and helping to raise investment
- a group of small bitcoin mining companies I’m helping form collaborations with larger companies so they can leverage their access to capital markets and bulk purchasing power
- a group of larger bitcoin mining companies who I’m helping find sites for new bitcoin mining projects.

How is all this possible?

The simple answer is that in any other industry it would be Impossible. It would take too long to find the builders and ninjas. It would take too long to build trust.

Yet my experience in the bitcoin community is the exact opposite.

- There’s a massively high ratio of builders and ninjas.
- People are motivated by a mission bigger than them, which means ego is relatively low, and discretionary effort is very high
- people are by definition sharp critical thinkers. Which means I constantly feel surrounded by kindred spirits.

It’s spiritually uplifting, and that means that each new project creates energy rather than taking energy.

It’s also why bitcoin is unstoppable. It’s not just the superior architecture, the decentralised peer-to-peer protocol or the proof of work algorithm, although all those structures are absolutely necessary.

It’s the fact that on top of those structures are standing some of the most committed and generous people I’ve ever stood shoulder to shoulder next to.

Of the vast majority of people I’ve met, they are not talking about what they can get. They are talking about what they can give.

Imagine a whole society of peers like that?

I’m lucky that this is not such a stretch or such a dream for me any more.

As John Lennon once wrote “you may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one”.

As someone who never aspired to material acquisition, for whom the life of mortgage debt servitude and deadbeat jobs always seemed crazy, as someone who was offended by a system where you could get money simply by being close to the money and adding nothing productive in the process, yet who often felt alone for people the only person in the room who felt this way - it’s been a relief to find there are other people as crazy as me who dare to challenge their received wisdoms and dare dream that there is another way.

Thank you.